From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 20:46:15 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Documentation: full-ness of a bundle is significant for cloning X-Git-Tag: v1.8.1.1~20^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b5fb4770ad132f1e3458dae61b132e335898dc9e;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git Documentation: full-ness of a bundle is significant for cloning Not necessarily every bundle file can be cloned from. Only the ones that do not need prerequisites can. When 1d52b02 (Documentation: minor grammatical fixes and rewording in git-bundle.txt, 2009-03-22) reworded this paragraph, it lost a critical hint to tell readers why this particular bundle can be cloned from. Resurrect it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt index 5c8ba44c18..bc023cc5f3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-bundle.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-bundle.txt @@ -112,10 +112,9 @@ machineA$ git bundle create file.bundle master machineA$ git tag -f lastR2bundle master ---------------- -Then you transfer file.bundle to the target machine B. If you are creating -the repository on machine B, then you can clone from the bundle as if it -were a remote repository instead of creating an empty repository and then -pulling or fetching objects from the bundle: +Then you transfer file.bundle to the target machine B. Because this +bundle does not require any existing object to be extracted, you can +create a new repository on machine B by cloning from it: ---------------- machineB$ git clone -b master /home/me/tmp/file.bundle R2